Look over there." Richard left his sister precipitately, without even a word of farewell.
She watched him cross the room, and smiled at the fury of a little Frenchman whom he nearly knocked over in his hurry to get round to the other side of the table.

A moment later he was standing a few feet away from the girl who had taken so strange a hold upon his affections.

He himself was conscious of a curious and unfamiliar nervousness.
Physically he felt as though he had been running hard.

He set his teeth and tried to keep cool.

He found some plaques in his pocket and began to stake.